Pictorial Chronology 1979-2019

About the Book

A Contemporary Personal Pioneer Missionary Narrative WITNESS TO HISTORY 1979-2019 Assisting God’s People in East-Central Europe, Russia, Armenia During the Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Years Witness to History 1979-2019 is a personal, narrative account of pioneering missionary service in the East-Central European Soviet Satellite states during the Late Soviet period, and in the Russian Federation during the Early Post-Soviet period. Historical records concerning Leninist, Stalinist, Khrushchev regimes gleaned prior to the 1970s, firsthand accounts of life under the Brezhnev regime, through the years of reform under Mikhail Gorbachev and the heady tenure of Boris Yeltsin---all the way to the current (and now clearly brutal New Soviet) tenure of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, combine to present the story of the God’s people under duress within the militant Marxist-Leninist system.

About the Author

Kaarina Ann Ham was raised in Western New York by parents committed to the Great Commission. Adolescent years took her family to New England where the missionary calling progressed. Undergraduate study at Eastern Nazarene College near Boston and graduate study at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena further nurtured the urge toward cross-cultural mission. 1979 marked the beginning of travels to the Soviet Union, followed by pioneering missionary service in the Soviet Satellite States of East-Central Europe during the 1980s, and a focus on the post-Soviet Russian Federation during the 1990s. In recent years, a deep tug at her heart has brought her to the Republic of Armenia. She is grateful for the privilege of pursuing this historic 40-year spiritual calling as God has prospered the journey from Boston to Pasadena to Chicago to Vienna to Moscow to Samara to Yerevan.